Deputy Group Leader; R&D Manager

What You Will Do

The Deputy Group Leader (DGL) works with the Group Leader to provide leadership and management of roughly 80 employees and students with an annual budget of $50 million. The DGL coordinates the efforts of Team Leaders and Principal Investigators, provides technical direction to maintain and improve capabilities, develop programs and personnel, and ensures work quality and cost effectiveness. The DGL fosters synergistic teams, collaborates across organizational boundaries, and manages personnel issues.

The DGL is a role model for the Group’s learning safety culture and questioning attitude, and provides oversight within Hazard Category (HAZCAT) 2 nuclear facilities or up to Category I security facilities.

Key responsibilities include:

• Providing strategic direction and priorities for the Division.
• Securing and dedicating approximately 50% effort toward programmatic deliverables and milestones.
• Managing program development, execution, and capability maintenance.
• Engaging with Laboratory line, program, and facility managers for planning and execution.
• Collaborating across organizational boundaries to ensure success of NEN‑2 experiments.

• Professional‑level experience and scientific excellence in nuclear instruments, safeguards, criticality, or experimental nuclear science and engineering.
• Experience managing, leading, and delivering on complex experiments, projects, or programs involving diverse disciplines.
• Demonstrated acumen in leading/enabling a robust safety culture.
• Leadership skills including integrity, accountability, communication, quality commitment, and people development.
• Experience building successful collaborations across multiple organizational boundaries.
• Senior level education: bachelor’s in a nuclear‑relevant science or engineering field plus 2 years of job‑related nuclear experience (or 6 years of experience). An advanced degree is preferred.

• Experience building and developing technical capabilities and human capital.
• Experience operating in laboratory or experimental facilities handling nuclear materials.
• R&D experience within compliance guidance of a HAZCAT 2 nuclear facility.
• Program/project development success, including proposal preparation and presentations.
• Experience working with U.S. government stakeholders such as NNSA, DHS, DOW, and LANL program offices.
• Knowledge of nuclear weapons program and nuclear emergency response.
• Knowledge of classification guidance in the Group’s areas.
• Active Q Clearance and HRP.

The position is onsite at Los Alamos, NM.

• PPO or high deductible medical insurance; dental and vision insurance; free basic life and disability insurance.
• Paid childbirth and parental leave.
• Award‑winning 401(k) with 6% matching plus 3.5% annual contribution.
• Learning opportunities and tuition assistance.
• Flexible schedules and time off.
• Onsite gyms and wellness programs.
• Extensive relocation packages.

Active Q clearance required; background investigation required. Eligible for DOE Human Reliability Program, DOE Order 426.2A, and New‑Employment drug testing. This position is an equal‑opportunity employer.